skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The council, composed of representatives of governments elected in their own state, nominates the commission and proposes laws which are then voted by the parliament where deputies who have been directly elected by European sit. The parliament also confirms the commission.

Care to explain how any of that is undemocratic?
Just an aside, notions of "first language" and "second language" don't work well in Indian and other Asian contexts. Often, the language that people learn first (their "mother tongue") would be a local language (say, Marathi) which eventually ends up being the second- or third-best language that they know, superseded by Hindi and English.

So, for many urban middle-class Indians, English is actually their "first language" as in the language they know best, even though it might be the third language in the order that they learned it. (Actually, even the notion of learning them in an "order" applies only loosely because you'd be learning all 3 languages at the same time).

This is also true for many Chinese people. E.g. a person's mother tongue may be Shanghainese but eventually they learn Mandarin and English to a much more advanced degree than Shanghainese.
> So I'd estimate that in an honest poll to reopen Nord Stream and protect it militarily you'd easily get 60% in favor.

That's nonsense. There are AFD and BSW bought and paid by Russia telling this nonsense.

Russia has used their energy policy as a weapon to try to dominate Europe and to conquer countries. It was a huge mistake to fall into that trap.

Nord Stream is dead. Russia is a paria in Europe.
He also campaigned on states rights to win over southern whites racists, and he ignored the AIDS epidemic, because his supporters thought it was God’s punishment for homosexuals.
LLM running on Windows 98 PC
Oh, he only busted the Great Depression, won WWII, built half of the infrastructure that we keep kicking the expiration date on, and negotiated 80% of the beneficial fine print in your employment contract. Don't you think he could have done a bit more?

My list would be: 1. FDR, 2. Carter, 3. Teddy. Carter because he sacrificed his career to fix inflation (Republican attempts to rewrite history notwithstanding), and Teddy because he wasn't merely an excellent man with excellent politics, but also because whenever present-day Republicans try to claim the man without claiming his politics I can turn it into a teachable moment, and putting him on a list with the other two is the perfect bait.
Almost same here, but I also understand that it's a luxury. At this point in my life I can afford it, but I've also seen times when I could do anything to get food on table for my family. Luckily for me those times didn't last.
Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes
Even here on HN, the vibecession was in full tilt.
> io_uring "is largely a copy-paste of RIO" if you wanted to be childish.

This was unnecessary. I'm not denigrating I/O Rings or io_uring. The NT kernel is more advanced than the Linux/BSD/macOS kernels in certain ways. There should be a back-and-forth copying of the good ideas/implementations.
I don't think they're suggesting storing them in base32/58/64, but just having that be how they're presented to the user. We do this in some of our APIs- if the URL has an ID of a specific length we try to turn it into a full UUID first before passing it on to other code. In the postgres database, the ID column is still a UUID type.
> the US would be in a much better place

This would have been the case with Gore (2000) and Clinton (2016) too.
The areas that he mentioned are touristy places, with low density, low land prices, and low regulatory burdens. It's _easy_ to build more there. If you're desperate, you can just buy a plot of land and put a mobile home there.

But it turns out that 50-60% of people in these locations are renters. And about a half of them are overburdened (more than 30% of income goes to rent).

The reality is that the short-term rentals expose dirt-poor communities to people with higher incomes. And the way to fix this is NOT to ban higher incomes from moving into low-income communities. Quite the opposite. We need to make more opportunities in these kinds of communities.

Promote remote work, give tax breaks to companies that want to build offices in these areas, etc.
On the other hand, cognitive impairment can help a candidate when voters end up empathizing with them.
“wasn’t turned off” is what I meant to say.

What I mean is, an M3 MacBook has essentially the same processor as a cell phone. Of course it’s able to perform activities when the system is “asleep.” It even has specific online behavior labeled as a feature that can be turned on/off (Power Nap).

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-power-nap-on-o...

This is behavior that is desired by Apple’s users.

I sometimes wish that more Apple users who aren’t satisfied would stop complaining while continuing to throw money at Apple and buy themselves a Linux laptop. If you want a laptop with special features like a WiFi kill switch you should buy one of those, not buy a consumer appliance device that is marketed toward convenience-oriented home users.
It will happen everywhere, it’s where the incentives push towards
A different org that is building small intermediate shelters that I think is cool is Pallet: https://palletshelter.com/

I'm not affiliated with them, I just think it's a good idea and they are making some real traction.
1963 @ $1.25 or 1957 @ $1.00

giving me $1.25 * (304.702/30.6) = $12.44 or $1 * (304.702/28.1) = $10.84

my sources:
https://www.dir.ca.gov/iwc/minimumwagehistory.htm
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/consumer-pri...
I admit that I hadn't considered the possibility of importing outside geotagged photos into your own Photos library, because I don't do that. But I also said already, "To be clear, I meant that it was a nonissue for me, because I don't geotag my photos (except in that one test). Whether it's an issue for other people, I don't know."

I don't personally have a strong feeling for or against this particular feature, since I don't use geotagging at all, so it doesn't affect me. I'm neither endorsing nor condemining it offhand. I'll leave it to other people to argue over whether it's a privacy problem. It could be! I just lack the proper perspective on this specific issue.
Human factors are the most important thing these days to wealth, not geography.
Ironically he did more deregulation than Reagan yet somehow we don’t remember it that way.

For his electoral loss it’s just that Carter was never interested in the political manoeuvring. He was never going to have a good chance.
Ask HN: Web dev pivoting to event streaming/real-time apps. Tips?
I've spent 7+ years building web apps with Node.js + React (mostly CRUD, some real-time features via WebSockets). Looking to pivot into event streaming and real-time data roles.

My current approach:

1. Learning Kafka and Pulsar fundamentals via their docs

2. Building a small side project

3. Reading DDIA and system design materials

4. Reading Confluent docs and blog

Looking to hear from folks who made similar transitions:

1. Beyond Kafka/Pulsar, what should be on my radar (technologies, patterns, tools)?

2. What kind of side projects helped you land your first streaming role?

3. How did you identify companies with meaningful streaming work?

Appreciate any insights, especially from those who switched from web dev to streaming at scale.
I’ve ended up settling on an old Apple Extended Keyboard II. I’ve had several modern keyboards end up dying - failing to register some keystrokes, whilst this thing has has been working for longer than my lifetime…
I'd suggest you follow Jetbrains' pricing structure.
While I agree with the general sentiment, I think the same could have been said regardless of which candidate won. It feels like the left moved left, the right moved right, and instead of catering to moderates, threatening them to pick a side.

Said another way, I think a young Jimmy Carter type candidate would have wiped the floor with either side this election.
If you have a mac use charmstone.app
I cannot go back to life without it.
Your top menu has an "As" button, listing how you compare to alternative products. Is that the label you wanted?
Three Mile Island and then Chernobyl kinda killed that dream. Both had bad actors trying to cover up the leak, and caused the nuclear scare to go even worse.

France also has majority ownership of the nuclear plants, something that would never fly in the US (because Socialism!).

Even when I was an intern at a power company, the leaders there saw the nuclear power plant the company owned as an "albatross around their neck".
>it could be argued real work on Climate Change would have begun in 1981 as opposed to where we are now

That's a common myth. 70s energy policy was a result of the oil crisis, not environment concerns.

Sometimes the result was conductive to the environment (e.g. efficiency increases), sometimes it was less so (various US gov research into more polluting alternatives like synthetic oil or shale oil), and sometimes it was just silly (like Carter banning nuclear waste reprocessing which set back that entire industry).
Yes, there really needs to be some margin for really big and costly changes. One of the main reasons for Brexit being such a clusterfuck was that, once the going got tough, majority support evaporated and the exit was pushed through by what was effectively a minority government at that point, with parliament trying to make their lives as difficult as possible. It could have been less painful overall if there had been more robust agreement to go ahead with it, and therefore some degree of cooperation. Maybe 2/3 majority is overkill, but a 60-40 split should be a requirement for serious changes to the future of a country.
Ah, I see. It sounds like you haven't tried something like Cursor, on tasks/languages that it performs well on. It'll be interesting for you when you discover what it's like. You don't accept large quantities of implementation ab initio; but they're very good nowadays at modifying and extending with non-broken code.
> whether you're invigorated by interacting with people or tired by it, and especially by people you don't know well.

In my experience, that depends on the people. Even if I don't know them well, sometimes the interaction starts great, and sometimes it is exhausting.

From my perspective, some people are loud and annoying, and their communication seems mostly about establishing a dominance hierarchy. Other people are nice and calm, and they... discuss things, without necessarily making it about them being better than everyone else.

But I would probably call myself an introvert, because when there is a larger group of people, there is usually someone who makes it a battle for dominance, so from my perspective almost all larger groups suck. But I have also seen groups where no one was like this, and they were okay. They are just very rare.
I have Photos shared library set up, one of the members of the library is a child account — I wonder if that’s got anything to do with it.
He's the richest man in the world, brags about ketamine use, and needs to make alt accounts to kiss his own ass on Twitter. No "butt hurt" (lol, as if) here, just genuine concern about such an insecure, pathetic person wielding the power and influence he has. Especially with Trump's deference to him.

And let's get it out of the way, it ain't some bitter jealousy. I don't hurt for money. I've worked half my adult life and can retire anytime I want. I'm not 35 yet. And I have actual friends. I'm pretty damn sure I lead a considerably happier life than that sad husk.

Now characterizing the criticism of him as such and blanket dimissing it... now that's juvenile. And for what it's worth, I'll absolutely concede that he's played a good game. The fact that he (via Starlink) has the importance he has is really, really something (almost as if we shouldn't have dementia patients controlling spending or something). But everything else about the man, his allegiances, he and Trump's flagrant violations of the Logan Act? Yeah, concerning. Otherwise I wouldn't give a hoot.
What do you think about the suggestions in the article for why this isn't ideal?
These were recruiters working for the respective companies.
That's a lot of BS.

The European Parliament is elected every few years by citizens in all member states.

The European Commission is nominated by the European Council and and confirmed by the European Parliament.

The European Council consists of government officials from the member states where they have been chosen by national democratic processes.

It may be a little complicated, but it's all rooted in democratic processes. Please stick to the facts and keep the populistic anti-EU nationalistic propaganda to yourself.

(Every kid in the EU has been learning those basic facts in school for decades, making it surprising that this populist nonsense still catches on with so many people. I have an easier time forgivin non-EU folks, but even those should check the facts before claiming things.)
I worked on this system during its development in the 1980s.

There were actually two PDP-11s, the one to run the platform displays running locally-written software.

The “weird control sequences” sent between the PDP-11 and the plaform displays were HDLC, a synchronous protocol then common in IBM token ring networks as SDLC. This was actually a decent technical solution because they only had to run one coax cable down each train line and the PIDS could sit there watching for their token slot. The hardware for HDLC would have been commodity, whereas fibre optic or carrier sense for long-run packet was not.

The other PDP-11 that ran the signals (the “train describer”) could plot the position of trains on glass TTY terminals using escape sequences (VT100, same as in xterm today) so our PDP-11 pretended to be one of those and screen-scraped. So I was told, when I asked the guy who wrote it.

All of that was done before I got there. I was called in with 6 weeks to go before commissioning to fix the bit in the middle that recalculated train positions and arrival times.
He appointed Volcker, who ended stagflation eventually. And his predecessor was appointed by Nixon so it’s hard to blame Carter for this.
You're telling me this guy wrote a whole book urging "Free Palestine" in 2006?

I did not know that, thanks.
Relevant story: In 2015-2016, I was the commander of a few hundred new troops going through their initial Army training; not basic training, but the subsequent stage where they had a bit more freedom. When they violated the rules, I had the power to take away those freedoms, fine them up to a few weeks of pay, etc. Most of them endured that without blinking an eye.

Eventually I confirmed with the lawyers that I could also take away their phones, and that broke some of them. I mean that I had troops break down in tears in my office when I informed them of the punishment, and some went to extreme lengths to circumvent the punishment and secretly gain access to another phone. (They still had laptops and Wi-Fi, by the way, along with permission to borrow a phone if they needed to make an important call.)

The Army has studied this a bit and found that not allowing troops to have their phones during basic training is a significant obstacle to recruiting right now.
To me it's not even about performance (speed). It's just that the quality gap between cloud LLM services and local LLMs is still quite large, and seems to be increasing. Local LLMs have gotten better in the past year, but cloud LLMs have even more so. This is partly because large companies can afford to keep throwing more compute at the problem, while quality at smaller scale deployments is not increasing at the same pace.

I have a couple of 3090s and have tested most of the popular local LLMs (Llama3, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc.) at the highest possible settings I can run them comfortably (~30B@q8, or ~70B@q4), and they can't keep up with something like Claude 3.5 Sonnet. So I find myself just using Sonnet most of the time, instead of fighting with hallucinated output. Sonnet still hallucinates and gets things wrong a lot, but not as often as local LLMs do.

Maybe if I had more hardware I could run larger models at higher quants, but frankly, I'm not sure it would make a difference. At the end of the day, I want these tools to be as helpful as possible and not waste my time, and local LLMs are just not there yet.
My neighborhood book club most recently read James by Percival Everett. I can't say I liked it that much, but if it doesn't qualify as literary fiction, I don't know what will. Having said, that, most of the fiction best seller list in today's NY Times Book Review seems to be genre stuff: fantasy, crime, what have you.
I presume you are right that the previous article was flagged, but today's article was also killed by flags. Unless there was a dupe, it was flagged and dead when I found it on hckrnews.com. I "vouched" for it to bring it back alive because I thought it was a solid article that was worthy of discussion.

As to why it was flagged, it's always hard to say. A combination of people who think it's a hit piece, those who think it's too accepting of porn in general, and those who think it's simply inappropriate for a work oriented tech site. And possibly some people who simply don't want to see evidence that this particular problem exists.

I vouched for it because I think it's good for porn consumers to contemplate whether their behavior is enabling abusers like the one described here. If you are going to watch porn, at least choose performers who are clearly happy to be doing what they are doing and thus less likely to be forced to do so against their will!

WarOnPrivacy: You should be able to read comments on dead article if you turn on "showdead" in your profile (click your name on the top right of the page).
Met him one time. About 20 years ago, boarding a Delta RJ to SLC. I got upgraded, row 1. I'm stowing my carry on in the bin. Guy in row 2 stands up, sticks out his hand towards me and says "Pleased to meet you, my name's Jimmy Carter". I think "sure you are dude" and "if you were the former president, that lady next to you would be Ros...wait...she IS Rosalynn...". He had been on a fly fishing trip. Deplaned before everyone else into SS vehicle on the apron. Nice guy.
We used to travel to Europe and travel from country to country for an entire year. Now, we go to Europe and can spend no more than three months on the whole continent. I guess Iceland will be added to this. Why does Europe discourage long-term travelers from spending money there?
(Stock Investors) A free app pushing you financial market updates?
Dear Investors,

I’ve been looking for a free app that delivers frequent 24/7 real-time push notifications about the financial market, but I’ve only found old-school financial news apps like Bloomberg, MarketWatch, etc. These apps often require paid memberships and take a lot of time to sift through for key insights.

So, I came up with the idea of an app that summarizes the latest financial updates (even from sources that require paid memberships) and market trends. This app would deliver concise, frequent updates straight to your phone through push notifications. It is still an idea only, and this is not not form of promotion, but more of survey here.

Here’s what it would cover:
* Central bank decisions and updates;
* Analysis of financial reports for popular stocks;
* Important announcements and market sentiment;
* Major index movements and other key trends; and
* Much more to based on investors' needs and users' feedback.

My goal is to make staying informed about the market easy and efficient, whether you’re a trader, an investor, or just someone curious about market movements.

Would this be something you’d find helpful? Or you are using an app that you reckon is enough?

I’d love to hear your feedback, ideas, or critiques as I shape this concept!

Thanks for helping me refine this idea!
> I really don’t expect to learn any differently by doing further research, which I expect to be a waste of my time.

I guess that settles that, then.
Dude, there's a lot of delusion in your answer, I appreciate you for revealing it. Maybe you can read it back and learn.

However you saw your role here in the arc of the psi/Remote Viewing story, it was never that. This was just 1 moment in your life where you had a chance to try something new. And you failed. Because of fear. Just like I laid out in my OG linked answer why it would be hard. You showed the example.

I hope you have a nice day and give it a shot another time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528680
Over in Washington, the Hanford nuclear site is a big demonstration that we haven't really solved the holistic problems of nuclear waste. (Technical, financial, legal, political.)

Even just trying to ship it elsewhere for processing gets blocked by other states and cities.
The problem with trains in Germany is not high tech automation it is the aggressive cost-cutting that removed a lot of redundancy and stability, so now it is a worse service in quality and reliability
I predict Bluesky will add some form of targeted advertisements in the future once the user base has grown to a certain size. Isn't that obvious? I'd assume that's also why investors are willing to invest.
Unfotunately the neighbourhood downstream from the runway is a field followed closely by a body of water.
Self hosting website as local server running in your room? what’s the point?

Same with LLMs, you can use providers who don’t log requests and SOC2 compliant.

Small models that run locally is a waste of time as they don’t have adequate value compared to larger models.
Line 17, Schedule 1: "Self-employed health insurance deduction"

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi#en_US_2024_publink1...

"You may be able to deduct the amount you paid for health insurance (which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance and qualified long-term care insurance) for yourself, your spouse, and your dependents. "

"One of the following statements must be true.

You were self-employed and had a net profit for the year reported on Schedule C or F.

You were a partner with net earnings from self-employment.

You used one of the optional methods to figure your net earnings from self-employment on Schedule SE.

You received wages in 2024 from an S corporation in which you were a more-than-2% shareholder. Health insurance premiums paid or reimbursed by the S corporation are shown as wages on Form W-2.
Wouldn't a better example than guitars be violins? A handmade violin is always going to sound better than one machinemade because the luthier is able to treat the wood specifcally to showcase the tone of the wood used.
they do - they ask… the “problem” is that it is too broad… I picked “science” and there were myriad of post with pictures of various galaxies… pretty but after you see 27 of them…

with the new accounts it is also asking to like 10 posts and follow 7 accounts so that it can try to figure shit out. it can be trained for sure but when I first joined to try it out it was just politics - mostly left-leaning praising Dr Fauci (very confusing) and stuff like that. I don’t use social media - no X, Facebook, Insta, TikTok… all were tried but eventually discarded … bluesky will suffer the same faith :)
The movie they made about it is a difficult watch. Just terrifying.
Manmohan Singh has Died at 92
You're saying that you've killed people for money? Or that you hired killers before?